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of cell ; a striga from costa close to base and a waved subbasal Hue 

 from costa to submedian fold ; an antemedial black line incurved 

 and obsolescent in cell and angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular pale 

 brown, elliptical, erect ; the medial shade black, oblique from costa 

 to median nervure, then incurved and euding in a spot above vein 1 ; 

 reniform smoky brown defined by black, very large and round ; the 

 postmedial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 3, then incurved, with some white on its outer edge towards 

 inner margin and two black lunules before it above veins 5 and 6 ; 

 three white points on postmedial part of costa ; a curved minutely 

 dentate indistinct subterminal line ; a subapical black patch with a 

 white spot on its inner edge ; a K-like terminal mark on vein 5 and 

 a lunule and patch on cilia below vein 2 ; a series of small terminal 

 lunules. Hindwing white suffused with fuscous except towards 

 termen ; a fuscous postmedial line angled inwards in discal and sub- 

 median folds ; the tornus white with a black spot and patch on cilia 

 below vein 2 and a lunule at tornus ; a terminal waved line defined 

 by white on inner side ; cilia white ; the under side with black dis- 

 coidal spot, curved postmedial line and black patches on cilia at apex 

 and below vein 2. 



Hab. Natal. Kvj). 50 mill. Type in Coll. Druce. 



(3) EUPLEXIA MELANOBASIS, n. sp. 



5 . Head white ; palpi except third joint and antennae black ; 

 tegul» ferruginous brown ; thorax and patagia white with black 

 spots at base of patagia and patches on metathorax ; pectus and legs 

 black and white ; abdomen white irrorated with black and with 

 dorsal black bands. Forewing with the basal area black extending 

 to near one-half of wing down to submedian fold, below that to one- 

 third, a white and olive-brown mark at base of costa ; medial area 

 broadly suffused with white ; the reniform black with a white mark 

 on it and rather quadrate in shape, some blackish marks on costa 

 above it ; terminal area fuscous with a quadrate black patch on 

 costa before apex ; a spot on vein 5 and a large patch at tornus 

 defined by white on inner side. Hindwing fuscous black ; cilia of 

 both wings chequered black and white. 



Hab. Natal, Mooi Eiver. Exp. 34 mill. Type in B.M. 



(4) EuPLExiA SALDANHA, Peld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110, f. 6 (1874). 



Hab. Transvaal, Johannesburg (Distant) ; Natal, Estcourt 

 (Hutchinson) ; Cape Colony, Knysna. Exj^. 36 mill. 



